After almost no precipitation in Feb, there’s been enough rain in March to reach the average for Feb and March combined, so a pretty decent comeback. Should be another snowpack report midweek but I think it’s likely we’ll be around 50% of normal on April 1 (maybe a bit higher), which would be quite a recovery from the disastrous state it was little more than a month ago.

YNP FB page reports 31 inches of snow in the high country the last couple days, so I think the glass is half full...

There will most likely be another "winter conditions in Tuolumne" report out on Wednesday, so that will give us a better idea of where we stand. It does sound like at least some of the 13.6 inches of precipitation in March is still sitting on the backcountry slopes in crystalline form.

Today's winter conditions report is out, 44 inches of snowpack at TM, which I estimate will correspond to roughly 65-70% of average by the time we hit April 1. Using the analysis I did last year (which used 35+ years of April 1 snowpack data), including the new 2017 datapoint, this predicts a Tioga Road opening in mid-May - around May 12 - May 15. Here's the old thread that got moved into a different forum http://www.yosemite.ca.us/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3957. They also report that Tioga Rd is currently snow-covered from Crane Flat all the way beyond the Tioga Pass, around the 9000' line towards Lee Vining.